Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Follow the link and read about the issue from the pen of Eric J Brewer, former mayor of East Cleveland, Ohio. A $40 million business put out of business by the Strickland administration because of inconsistencies during a period when the owner was ill. The inconsistencies were corrected yet two years later the company with its 180 employees is closed.
Can Cleveland and even Ohio afford a $40 million dollar cut, especially in light of what Mr. Strickland has added in the way of jobs and income? It seems he has added very little if anything.
If you'd like to ask the honorable Ted Strickland about this here is how.
This link takes you to Ted Strickland's survey page where you can type in a message:http://www.tedstrickland.com/page/s/survey?gclid=CMfJv5irtKICFY9M5Qod7hCI4g.
This previous link takes you to the following page where you can send a note to friends. There is a pre-written note that I changed and sent. Supposedly you can only send to ten folks at a time but I sent to at least twice that many:http://www.tedstrickland.com/page/invite/survey
If you don't have time and would like a script this is what I said in the survey and in the page to friends:

I was appalled to find that this administration shut down Chuck Brown Sr. This was a 40 million Bail Bonds business. Was this a personal vendetta or an example of using a hatchet instead of a scalpel? Supposedly it was due to administrative inconsistencies that occurred while Mr. Brown was ill and I note corrective measures were put in place once he was well. Dear sir, I would like an accounting from your administration and I will remember this the next time you want my vote. I am also informing people of this through my facebook, MySpace pages and my blog. I will gladly print your views on this once I have them and have them researched.
Respectfully submitted

Your Host

Cavana Faithwalker was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Much of his
worldview and values have been molded by his Blackness bestowed upon him in a
working class Black, urban neighborhood. He blames his packrat tendencies, the
economy in his art and poetry on being raised by an Alabama, depression baby
momma who was raised on a farm with her nine brothers and sisters. "She is
probably the reason I fight consumerism gone amuck and the overly me-ish
influence of our society," says Cavana.

His fascination with mechanical things, physics, his aesthetics,
his sense of humor and how things relate to each other comes from construction
worker dad and others.

He has a degree in public art marketing and management from
Cleveland State University. His major is composed of Urban Studies, Studio Art and Marketing.

He says his “new best friend” now is Amit Goswami a quantum
physicist turned spiritual guru and quantum activist. " I
think something is happening worldwide as far as spiritual consciousness.
For me after almost a quarter century of mainstream and somewhat
fundamentalist Christian dogma and orthodoxy, that whole thing is giving in to a new interpretation of what
the canon says and also what is myth and what is ‘reality.’

When it comes to orthodoxy and dogma I
rather like an adage attributed to Zen Buddhism, ‘when you meet the Buddha in
the road, kill the Buddha.’"

Cavana believes in congruency. “The more you can be in sync with your
authentic self the healthier you are and the more life you bring to the things
you do, yeah congruency.” He aims
at being content in life and enjoying life. His mantra is breathe in breathe out. “Through meditating when I play my didgeridoo
I may have zeroed in on the one thing that won’t change in my world view, it
may be the constancy that anchors me, the lessons in science, those
metaphysical concepts beyond the science of plant animal relationships
surrounding oxygen are powerful. A natural outcome of this mantra is thinking
win-win, big picture, and yin yang.

Perhaps when you gravitate to something or are in accord with something it was meant to be that revelations come through it.I learned to play the didjeridoo in 30 minutes, ‘circular’ breathing and how to make sounds.Many play along time without learning ‘circular breathing’ but it just seemed like the thing to do."

Cavana is a visual and performance artists, he sings and plays
didjeridu and is aiming at attaining some level of expertise at throat singing
also know as overtone singing.

Cavana was the Poet Laureate for the City of Cleveland Heights,
Ohio from 2011-2013.

"Muhammed Ali got me into poetry with his prose and antics in the
70s," Faithwalker says. "I would write prose poetry and recite
them for fellow students in high school." He won his first poetry
contest while in high school.

Today Cavana puts himself in the activist 'box'. "A lot of folks don't like labels but we are hardwired to label and pre judge. I read this sign that said activism is the rent for living on this planet, or something like that. I like that but even more so we are all activists if we become aware and congruent. We naturally care, compassion, and get involved and wear off on those that have been beat up too much to care and get involved - empowerment. When we get too beat up someone re empowers us. Romantic view I know and I try to live into it.